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Tech Turns Air Into a Multi-Touch Screen : Discovery News - 1 views

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EdCeptional09 radar touch

shared by J B on 14 May 11 - No Cached
  • Researchers created a special empty frame with highly responsive multi-touch capacity.
  • Touch-sensitive frames have enabled surfaces to become interactive for years, but their size and responsiveness tend to be limited.
  • The 28-inch ZeroTouch frame with scalloped edges can detect whatever moves around inside it. Fingertips, hands, arms, and even inanimate objects pass through an invisible two-dimensional optical web that tracks them. Put ZeroTouch on a computer screen and it turns into an interactive surface that can be manipulated with a stylus.
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  • One big advantage to ZeroTouch, the researchers say, is its affordability. The research prototype was made using commercially available sensors usually found in TV remote controls. Moeller said that the frame, which wasn't designed for mass-production, cost about $450 to construct.
  • Moeller pointed out that the technology creates more possibilities for interaction than capacitive interfaces like the glass touch-screens on smart phones and laptops. The technology simply requires the user to break the light beams -- there's no force required to activate the sensor.
Patrick Black

Treepad Lite - 0 views

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tools organization software free Windows

shared by Patrick Black on 10 May 11 - Cached
  • Freeware! TreePad Lite is an award-winning Personal Information Manager for Windows (and Linux/Wine). It is portable, easy to use, small in size, yet very powerful. TreePad Lite can be used to store, edit, search, organize and browse any type of textual information: notes, emails, articles, links, phone numbers, addresses, scraps pasted from the Web, etc.
Patrick Black

SpeEdChange: A 'Universal' VoiceThread? Not quite. And, Google and Prezi - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Black on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • VoiceThread has failed to work with any kind of screen reader, leaving those with sight issues, and reading issues, disconnected... from totally to partially
  • VoiceThread Universal lets full-scale screen readers, software like JAWS and ORCA, read the text comments left on a VoiceThread and allow navigation. The navigation allows you to add comments as well, and that's great. But as the developers point out, the current system won't help you with, "creating and adding content to VoiceThreads," won't allow searches, doesn't allow phone integration, though they say all these things are being "worked on."
  • A bigger issue for me is that neither VoiceThread nor VoiceThread Universal works with the kind of "light" screen readers used by those with dyslexia.
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  • So, is it OK for us to use these tools in schools? I am conflicted. I tend to think "yes" assuming that we always - automatically - provide alternative access capability which is, essentially, equal. After all, we still use those inaccessible books in our rooms, we still let teachers write, in handwriting no less, on the "board." But I'm bothered by it because use may tend to remove the pressure on these organizations to move toward accessibility. These companies want access to our students, should we offer that if they don't really want access to all of our kids?
J B

Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds - 0 views

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radar iOS autism

shared by J B on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • J B on 11 Apr 11
     
    Wonkido - web and mobile based platform designed to manage schedules, tasks, lessons, therapy or activities.  Features fun, kid-friendly interface and built-in reward system.
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